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Uttarakhand implements Uniform Civil Code (UCC) attracting criticism and concerns
Uttarakhand has become the first state in independent India to enact a comprehensive Uniform Civil Code (UCC), taking a step towards uniformity in personal laws, affecting matters such as marriage, divorce, inheritance, and adoption across all religions. The move has reignited debates regarding the balance between individual rights, religious freedoms, and the constitutional vision of a secular and egalitarian society. While supporters of the step view the UCC as a progressive reform that upholds gender justice and national unity, concerns have been expressed by various critics over its impact on religious diversity and personal autonomy.
Will a “Uniform Civil Code” abolish the Hindu Undivided Family (HUF) and coparcenary rights over ancestral property for Hindu males?
While several aspects of personal laws across the board for all women –Hindu, Muslim and Christian—do require gender just revisions—the current hype around the “Uniform Civil Code: has been silent on whether the privileged and partisan financial privilege of the HUF will be done away with as also the coparcenary rights over ancestral property for Hindu males
On UCC, personal law reform & the politics of competitive communalism
Crucial reforms in Muslim personal law, especially laws related to inheritance and adoption need to bne initiated forthwith; historically speaking, without the state’s backing, hardly has any reform taken place or allowed to prevail
Hate-speech deployed by right-wing groups demanding UCC, Population Control Bill
Rallies organised by Hindutva organisations use divisive rhetoric and conspiracy theories about Muslims and Christians
Muslim Women’s Quest for Gender-Just Laws
Muslim women are in favour of gender-just laws, but Muslim women’s groups recognise that the women have to contest both the Muslim Personal Law and the politics around the demonisation of everything that is Muslim.
IMSD supports a religion-neutral, gender-just UCC
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Ironically, in secular India the ulema continue to cling to medieval, patriarchal notions of gender relations in the name of Islam.
What does the Citizens Draft of the Egalitarian Uniform Civil Code Say?
Sabrangindia has exclusively accessed the draft of the uniform...
Need Uniform Civil Code (UCC) that is Egalitarian, Citizens hand Draft to Law Panel Chief
As many as eight eminent citizens, including scholars, a...
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UCC: Women’s Forum Launches Campaign for ‘Immediate Withdrawal’ of Law Commission’s ‘Appeal’, ‘Questionnaire’
The Law Commission "fails miserably" in following the February...